TY - BOOK AU - Futre Pinheiro,M. AU - Bierl,Anton AU - Beck,Roger TI - Intende, lector: echoes of myth, religion and ritual in the ancient novel T2 - MythosEikonPoiesis SN - 9783110311907 AV - PA3257 .I58 2013eb U1 - 883/.0109 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Greek fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Mythology in literature KW - Roman grec KW - Histoire et critique KW - Mythologie dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Ancient novel KW - myth KW - ritual KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction; Roundtable Myth and the Novel; Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion; Myth in the Novel: Some Observations; The Literary Myth in the Novel; Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power; Novel and Mythology -- Contribution to a Round Table; Greek Novel and Local Myth; Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Storyline, Poetics and Religion; Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames; The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel; From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel -- even in Apuleius' Golden Ass?From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations; Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives; Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche; Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion; Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality; Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius' MetamorphosesIphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus' Aethiopica and the 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' Pattern; 'Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse' (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius' Satyricon; Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art; False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon; The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth; Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing; Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius' Golden Ass Book 3Lucius's Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure?; General Index; Index locorum; About the Authors N2 - Despite the recent and intensified scholarly interest in the field of myth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection advance our understanding considerably as they probe the intersections of myth and ritual with the plot of the novels. The volume provides a substantial point of departure for subsequent research into freer models of interaction between literature and religion UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=661734 ER -